Improvement in clothes-pounders



A. BUGBEE.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

No. 188,850. Patented March 27,1877.

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WlTNESSES Z INV%L;QA0

ATTORNEY NPETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTONv D C UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

ALPHEUS BUGBEE, OF ELKHART, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOANDREW W. MGKAY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-POUN DERS.

Specification forming part of Letters. Patent No. 188,850, dated March27, 1877; application filed February 24, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHEUS BUG-BEE, of Elkhart, in the county ofElkhart and State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Clothes-Founders; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a vertical centralsection of this invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the same.

This invention has relation to atmospheric washing-pressers; and itconsists in the construction and noveltarrangement, in connection withthe external cone, of the internal funnel, having its base joined to theinside 7 wall of said cone, openings being left at in;-

tervals in the joint, and having its apex downward and open for the freepassage of water, as hereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the externalcone-of the presser, having a neck, -B, whereby the handle 0 isattached. The base or marginal rim of this cone is downward. Drepresents the internal funnel or reversed cone. This has its baseupward and attached to the inside wall of the outer cone, the line ofattachment extending around the wall at about its middle portion. Atintervals around the base of the inner cone openings a are formed. Theinner cone extends downward, its'apex being about level with the base ofthe outer cone, and centrally arranged with regard thereto. The apex isprovided with an opening or passage, 12. Between the lower portion ofthe wall of the outer cone and the outer wall of the reversed inner conethere is an annular space, 0, and above the reversed cone is a chamber,d, into which the openings (1 in the upper portion of the annular spacea lead. w

The operation of this device is as followsi The clothes, being soaped inthe usual way are thrown into a tub, and pressed down lightly, andcovered with scalding-hot water, so that the water stands two or threeinches above them. The washer is then pressed perpendicularly downwardrather heavily, whereby all the clothes under the cone are pressedagainst the bottom of the tub. The washer now being raised the suctionbrings the clothes with it to the surface, when a disengagement iseffected by the entrance of the air. A reverse downward movement of thepresser now forces the hot water or suds up through the clothes, andthrough the openings a into the chamber d. In its upward passage throughthe clothes the water produces a cleansing effect, and when the washeris raised this effect is continued by the discharge of the water ofchamber 01 through the opening b at the lower endor apex of the funnelinside upon the clothes in a full stream.

In the downward movements the clothes are wedged into the annular space0 with considerable force, so that when the washer is raised the suctionis quite powerful.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure I by Letters Patent, is-

l. The washing-presser, consisting of the outer cone A, and the innerfunnel D joined to the inner wall of the former, open at its lower endor apex, and having the openings 0!, leading from the annular space 0around it into the chamber above it, substantially as specified.

2. In a washing-presser the combination, with the outer cone A, of theinner annular wall D, joined to the inner wall of said cone, and havingvents formed in said inner wall, the latter extending downward to forman annular space, 0, around the base of the cone,- substantially asspecified. p

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ALPHEUS BUGBEE.

Witnesses CHAS. W. FIsH, D. N. Lam.

